Green Smoothie Controversy: Are They Healthy or Unhealthy?
Are green smoothies really healthy for you or do they contain too much fruit and sugar? Should people who want to lose weight avoid them? These are just a couple of the controversies going around about green smoothies, and it’s nothing new. There will always be people who claim that they are not as healthy [...]
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How To Overcome The Challenge Of Losing Weight On A Budget
As if temptations and willpower don’t make weight loss difficult enough, a budget, or lack thereof, can really put a damper on your ability to shed pounds. Losing weight can often feel like losing money! Healthy food costs more than the cheap junk food staples that put on the weight to begin with. Gyms are [...]
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How To Kick The Soda Pop Habit And Finally Lose Weight
Soda (or “pop”, as it’s called in my neck of the woods) is addicting. Most people don’t realize just how much of it they drink. An 8-ounce can of regular soda contains 95-115 calories. That’s empty calories that aren’t contributing to anything except your waistline. These calories add up quickly too. If you drink two [...]
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How To Break Your Weight Loss Plateau
Have you ever experienced the dreaded weight loss plateau? It’s an awful feeling when your successful weight loss grinds to a sudden halt. No matter what you do, you just can’t get that scale to budge. You try tweaking your diet or take an even more rigid approach. Nothing works and your weight stays the [...]
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You Can Lose Weight And Still Have Dessert!
If you want to be successful in your weight loss journey, you have to make lifestyle changes. You’ll have to dramatically limit certain foods from your diet, like dessert. However, trying to stick to a strict diet regimen might backfire as well. If you try to remove all temptations from your life in order to [...]
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You might have heard me talk about low fat diets before. Perhaps you’ve seen my high-carb, fruit-packed 500-calorie green smoothies that I used to lose 40 pounds and effortlessly maintain my ideal weight. My approach to both weight loss and long term diet is to keep my fat intake low and to not restrict my [...]
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How To Break Your Sugar Addiction With Green Smoothies
Sugar is addicting. It’s pervasive in our food. Most of us just can’t get enough of it. If you have even a fraction of the sweet tooth that I have, you might just consider yourself a sugar addict. I know I was! But that changed when I discovered green smoothies and whole foods. According to [...]
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How To Make A Meal Replacement Green Smoothie For Weight Loss
I recently wrote about how a 500-calorie green smoothie is not “too high in calories” for weight loss. Now I’d like to share about how to make meal replacement smoothies that helped me lose 40 pounds. Like many people trying to lose weight, I went from fad diet to fad diet with limited (and temporary) [...]
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This is one of the big concerns people have about drinking green smoothies when they want to lose weight. I’m not sure how or why, but somehow, somewhere, somebody decided that fruit causes people to gain weight. And somehow, that myth spread like wildfire and I get e-mails all the time from people who are [...]
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